Upcoming Library Closure

The Port Orange Regional Library will be closed for renovation from Monday, May 26th to Monday, June 16th, 2014.

Please pardon our light programming as we anticipate renovating your home library with new paint and carpet.  A new look for the library with the same great service and materials!  Be prepared as while we are closed you will need to visit one of the other great branches of the Volusia County Public Library.  Closest are:

Daytona Beach Regional Library
105 East Magnolia Avenue Daytona Beach
386-257-6036

New Smyrna Beach Regional Library
1001 South Dixie Freeway New Smyrna Beach
386-424-2910

Please call us at 386-322-5152 if you have questions about the closure.

May computer classes

Microsoft Word Basics: 05/01/2014, 2-3:30 p.m.: Get an overview of Microsoft Word 2007.

Ebooks and Audiobooks for your Tablet and Smartphone, 05/12/2014, 11-1: Learn how to download ebooks and audiobooks to your Smartphone or tablet using the OverDrive Media Console App.

Introduction to Computers and the Internet, 5/13/2014, 2-4: Those with their own laptops or other portable computing devices may bring them, as we have wifi throughout our building.  

 Registration is required for all of our classes.

May movies

Afternoon at the Movies (All Films Start at 2 p.m.)

05/05/2014: Twelve Years a Slave, Rated R, 134 minutes: In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.  Rated R for violence/cruelty, some nudity and brief sexuality.  Winner of The Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Supporting Actress.

05/12/2014: Frozen, Rated PG, 108 minutes: After the kingdom of Arendelle is cast into eternal winter by the powerful Snow Queen Elsa (voice of Idina Menzel), her sprightly sister Anna (Kristen Bell) teams up with a rough-hewn mountaineer named Kristoff (Jonathan Groff) and his trusty reindeer Sven to break the icy spell.  Winner of the Academy Awards for Best  Amimated Feature and Best Song.

05/19/2014: Ender’s Game, Rated PG-13, 113 minutes: A brilliant young strategist rises to the top of his class in Battle School while training to defend Earth against hostile aliens intent on exterminating the entire human race in this sci-fi epic based on the celebrated novel. In the not-too-distant future, our planet has come under attack from a malevolent race of aliens known as the Formics.  Harrison Ford, Hailee Steinfeld, Ben Kingsley, Abigail Breslin, and Viola Davis star.

Sunday Cinema

05/04/2014: The Armstrong Lie, Rated R, 123 minutes: In 2009 Alex Gibney was hired to make a film about Lance Armstrong's comeback to cycling. The project was shelved when the doping scandal erupted, and re-opened after Armstrong's confession.  Rated R for language.

May Friends and library programs

Rick De Yampert Sitar Performance
Friday, May 16, 2014, 2pm
Please join us as Mr. de Yampert performs a concert on sitar, Native American flutes, and Moyo drum.  Musical selection include Asian chill, Beatles songs, raga, world fusion, trance, Buddha lounge and down-tempo chill out music as well as funky fusion and up-tempo tribal dance soundscapes.  When Rick is not playing music, he works as the entertainment writer for the Daytona Beach News Journal, a position he has held for 17 years.

Book Club
Wednesday, May 21, 2014, 10:30am
Please join us as we discuss Don't Go by Lisa Scottoline.  Don't Go is the story of a soldier who discovers what it means to be a man, a father, and a hero.  When Dr. Mike Scanlon is called to serve as an army doctor in Afghanistan, he's acutely aware of the dangers he'll face and the hardships it will cause his wife Chloe and his newborn baby.